Spic-and-Span!

Cheaper by the Dozen and its sequel Belles on Their Toes were chapter books about industrial engineers Frank and Lillian Gilbreth and their large family in the early 1900s.  This hardbound picture book biography is about Lillian, a pioneer in her field and an inventor in the area of ergonomics.  She was responsible for the electric mixer, refrigerator compartments, and trash cans with foot pedal lid openers!  The author, Monica Kulling, has written other books in her "Great Ideas" picture book biography series.  David Parkins' pen-and-ink with watercolor illustrations are amusing and add to the story.

© Amanda Pape - 2014

[Spic-and-Span! is available on the lower level of the Dick Smith Library in the Curriculum Collection, call number EDUC T55.85 .G64 K85 2014]